The signs of Ghana's tech success
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| He maintains that Western societies have restricted the free flow of
| information and created obstacles to the ownership of knowledge. As a
| result, he believes developing countries should completely reject
| intellectual property.
|
| [...]
|
| One solution they advocate is Free or Open Source Software (Foss).
| Instead of being subject to copyright, the tools in this instance
| are made freely available to all and the software created benefits
| from shared expertise.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6411961.stm
Related:
Free software meets the media
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| The workshop, to be held at the Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT in
| Accra, Ghana, will run from April 23 to 27. The workshop is co-hosted by
| the Economic Commission for Africa, the Open Society Initiative for West
| Africa, the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT,
| L'Association de Presse Panafricaine, the Meraka Institute, the University
| of the Western Cape, IDC, and Panos London.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1415
Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
|
| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
|
| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
|
| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
[South Africa] Government switches to Open Source
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| Cape Town - Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government
| communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2888&iArticleId=3695987
http://tinyurl.com/2c8lbz
Rwanda Commits to Low-Cost Laptop Project
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| Rwanda is the eighth developing country to join the One Laptop
| Per Child initiative aimed at giving away inexpensive
| computers to all young students.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54987.html
Open source project aids South African students
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| The non-profit tuXlab program, which provides network connectivity
| along with tuXlab GNU/Linux desktops and other open-source software
| to South Africa high schools, integrated 10 more schools into its
| wireless network on Feb. 9. The project reportedly has now connected
| tuXlabs in 50 schools near Cape Town.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3015125106.html
Back to school - tuXlab reviewed
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| tuXlabs is a freely distributed educational software package running
| on a specialised Ubuntu derivative which has been rolled out to
| schools across South Africa and serves over 160 000 learners.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1397
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